Proverbial Wisdom
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
505. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
Vanity Fair, Chap. II
506. Our hours in Love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Xerxes (Tamira), Act IV, Scene III
507. The love of money is the root of all evil.
1 Timothy 6:10
508.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old;
It is the rust we value, not the gold.
Imitations of Horace, Bk II, Ep. I
509.
Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.
In Memoriam, CXXXI
510.
Alas! we make
A ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,
But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolves
Look down upon our slumbering acts.
A History of the Lyre